Dishonest money dwindles away, but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow.
An inheritance claimed too soon will not be blessed at the end.
Ill-gotten treasures have no lasting value, but righteousness delivers from death.
Whoever increases wealth by taking interest or profit from the poor amasses it for another, who will be kind to the poor.
The stingy are eager to get rich and are unaware that poverty awaits them.
A faithful person will be richly blessed, but one eager to get rich will not go unpunished.
Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay are those who gain riches by unjust means. When their lives are half gone, their riches will desert them, and in the end they will prove to be fools.
You will eat the fruit of your labor; blessings and prosperity will be yours.
He will spit out the riches he swallowed; God will make his stomach vomit them up.
or wealth lost through some misfortune, so that when they have children there is nothing left for them to inherit.
Where there is strife, there is pride, but wisdom is found in those who take advice.
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.
A fortune made by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a deadly snare.